I think that the thechnology progresses day by day. 3 or 4 years ago in our Polish Japnanesse school there was presentation about robot PARO. PARO has been found to reduce stress of ill people. By interacting with people this robot responds and acts like a real baby seal. What I'm trying to say is that we can expect technology news anytime because the world is changing so fast.
Katarzyna is right about the pace of development in technology, but I don’t suspect that we will hear about truly intelligent robot anytime soon. Creating artificial intelligence is like conversion from 2-dimentions to 3-dimentions. Nowadays we can only simulate a subclass of living organism reactions and behaviors. It is a software challenge that is more complicated from anything we are now working on by an order of magnitude. I like the idea of therapeutic seal-robot. I am sure that medicine will be the first filed of science and life to benefit from robot-technology developments.
Well... To be honest, I don't truly understand why the author connects intelligence with perceiving the time and death. For me it's a very strange simplification, which doesn't have much to do with artificial intelligence from the physical point of view.
Some time ago I've read Stephen Hawking's 'Brief History of Time' (which, by the way, I strongly recommend). Hawking wrote about a very interesting theory created by Laplace - that the future is totally determined by the actions from the past, and that knowing exactly every fact at any moment of time, we would be able to predict every other moment in the future, using the laws of physics (right now we know it's impossible due to Heisenberg's principle and the lack of sufficient computing power).
I would say that it's very similar with the human organism. Of course, we have all sort of different emotions and feelings, but they're not something supernatural - it's just about the chemical substances created in our body that cause them. I believe that, having a hyper-powerful computer with endless capacity, we could simulate the reactions of our organism to create artificial intelligence.
By the way, Hanson's TED talk is a bit outdated - 5 years in technology is a really long time. A few months ago I've seen 'Through the Wormhole' episode about robots that can actually learn: we can show them any object, name it, the robot remembers the name and tries to perform different actions, using that object. The robot behaves just like a child, learning, trying, remembering. It's a really big step in artificial intelligence technology.
Summing up my long comment (sorry, but the subject really interests me), I think creating artificial intelligence is a matter of time and resources.
The issue of artificial intelligence in general is very fascinating. The vision of the future with robots living around human beings is slightly overwhelming. Looking for pros we definitely should emphasize that it would gave the opportunity of achieving things that are regarded as unrealistic. To such things we can include replacing people working in danger like collieries or with chemicals.
The majority of population can see only cons of robots like substitution in workplaces, rebellion of machines that at a certain stage of development can behave like people - have a survival instinct, lust for power and self-activity.
Not only me but also researchers do not believe that replacing human brain is at least for now not possible. The main goal of artificial intelligence is suppose to be able to quickly analyze massive amounts of data, choosing among them those essential, then, one the basis of the collected information, to perform the same process better then before.
In fact, technology is developing very fast. However, I believe that it will take a very long time before any real work, which will be useful for people.
Robots and artificial intelligence will have many aplications in many areas in the future. Despite of delight that technology we should remember one important feature of technology and not only that. It's vulnerable for damages. In that case when for example in home robot will have error inside software, can be threaten to residents.
For me robotics is fascinating branch of technology but we shouldn't take all new gadgets without small percentage od criticism.
Here are the times where the technology is becoming more and more advanced and we can perceive the things which we could only dream about, like a human-robot. Couple of years ago robots could only do the simplest actions. Nowadays, according to the David Hanson's robot -its face can look exactly as human's face and it starts act like ours. It's not perfect though , so we can expect that in near future that artificial intelligence will be on the highest level and we will have problem with recognise the human being and the robot. It's not only about the face and emotions but also about walking, avoiding obstacles and interact with the environment like a real person. The only one problem about creating the perfect "fake" person is to teach the robot humans thinking about death, life and time. These things manipulate, in some ways, our world view and form our personality, so how can we teach robots it? They won't die at all. Robots just can broke down, but I don't think that they will be perceiving it like we think about our death, right? I'm just interested in what will happen in a couple of years
Like Karolina I also do not believe that the human brain can be replaced by a computer. I do not mind that robot help us in daily activities but when I see robots that look like people I am a little disgusted. Generally, I would avoid situation in which I see someone and I ask myself: Is it a man or robot?
Since first industrial revolution (XVIII century) We can observe that most of worker who were doing simplest work has been replaced by machines. Why ? because machines not eat, not drink, not sleep, and almost always do the same simple task exacltly like it should be done. Nowadays we can observe big boom in IT, robotis, like author of the article have noticed robots now can imitate some of humans behavior and movements. Maybe not now but in future I think that we Will be able to program/create something similar to human brain. And maybe in future robots will replace us in most of our duties. Here you can see most of best robots created until 2014. One of them is similar to Einstein robot mentioned in article.
As noted by Cezary machines replace us in menny areas. We often do not reflect on our work, responsibilities. Is it good? Is the mechanization of factories reduced employment in them? In my opinion only changed form of employment of people. We need more accountant, engineer, programmer.... to use machines. How many people will needed support AI? What work will be allocated to people? In what areas of AI will replace us?
Robots will always be just objects. They can be used in medicine, industry, and simple household chores but will never be able to spontaneously develop themselves. Many years will pass before the robots are able to move and perform complex daily activities. Personally, I fear the time when at work I don't meet friends but robots, even if they actually do behave and look like humans. There will always be something missing.
Honestly I'm truely affraid of artificial intelligence development. I think there will always be someone who will use it in a bad purposes. Also I think that the more human robots will reseble the real human the more the moral consiousness will be imbalanced, especially if it comes to deciding about life or death of a robot. For me this topic is as hard as talking about abortion. You will never have right and wrong. For some reflection I strongly recommend film by Kike Maíllo called "Eva" with Daniel Bruhl (the guy who played Niki Lauda in "Rush" and "Goodbye Lenin").
Well, as of now, we cannot say anything even closely related to artificial intelligence, as it doesn't exist. Yet. Unless we define intelligence as blindly following list of commands and making decisions based on previous experiences, then even my phone is intelligent. But remember one thing, we are aware of so little things (remember that the army has so much $$ to RnD) that we might not be aware that something like basic awareness exist. I guess we have to wait.
I think that the thechnology progresses day by day. 3 or 4 years ago in our Polish Japnanesse school there was presentation about robot PARO.
ReplyDeletePARO has been found to reduce stress of ill people. By interacting with people this robot responds and acts like a real baby seal. What I'm trying to say is that we can expect technology news anytime because the world is changing so fast.
Katarzyna is right about the pace of development in technology, but I don’t suspect that we will hear about truly intelligent robot anytime soon. Creating artificial intelligence is like conversion from 2-dimentions to 3-dimentions. Nowadays we can only simulate a subclass of living organism reactions and behaviors. It is a software challenge that is more complicated from anything we are now working on by an order of magnitude.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of therapeutic seal-robot. I am sure that medicine will be the first filed of science and life to benefit from robot-technology developments.
Well... To be honest, I don't truly understand why the author connects intelligence with perceiving the time and death. For me it's a very strange simplification, which doesn't have much to do with artificial intelligence from the physical point of view.
ReplyDeleteSome time ago I've read Stephen Hawking's 'Brief History of Time' (which, by the way, I strongly recommend). Hawking wrote about a very interesting theory created by Laplace - that the future is totally determined by the actions from the past, and that knowing exactly every fact at any moment of time, we would be able to predict every other moment in the future, using the laws of physics (right now we know it's impossible due to Heisenberg's principle and the lack of sufficient computing power).
I would say that it's very similar with the human organism. Of course, we have all sort of different emotions and feelings, but they're not something supernatural - it's just about the chemical substances created in our body that cause them. I believe that, having a hyper-powerful computer with endless capacity, we could simulate the reactions of our organism to create artificial intelligence.
By the way, Hanson's TED talk is a bit outdated - 5 years in technology is a really long time. A few months ago I've seen 'Through the Wormhole' episode about robots that can actually learn: we can show them any object, name it, the robot remembers the name and tries to perform different actions, using that object. The robot behaves just like a child, learning, trying, remembering. It's a really big step in artificial intelligence technology.
Summing up my long comment (sorry, but the subject really interests me), I think creating artificial intelligence is a matter of time and resources.
The issue of artificial intelligence in general is very fascinating. The vision of the future with robots living around human beings is slightly overwhelming. Looking for pros we definitely should emphasize that it would gave the opportunity of achieving things that are regarded as unrealistic. To such things we can include replacing people working in danger like collieries or with chemicals.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of population can see only cons of robots like substitution in workplaces, rebellion of machines that at a certain stage of development can behave like people - have a survival instinct, lust for power and self-activity.
Not only me but also researchers do not believe that replacing human brain is at least for now not possible. The main goal of artificial intelligence is suppose to be able to quickly analyze massive amounts of data, choosing among them those essential, then, one the basis of the collected information, to perform the same process better then before.
In fact, technology is developing very fast. However, I believe that it will take a very long time before any real work, which will be useful for people.
ReplyDeleteRobots and artificial intelligence will have many aplications in many areas in the future. Despite of delight that technology we should remember one important feature of technology and not only that. It's vulnerable for damages. In that case when for example in home robot will have error inside software, can be threaten to residents.
ReplyDeleteFor me robotics is fascinating branch of technology but we shouldn't take all new gadgets without small percentage od criticism.
Here are the times where the technology is becoming more and more advanced and we can perceive the things which we could only dream about, like a human-robot. Couple of years ago robots could only do the simplest actions. Nowadays, according to the David Hanson's robot -its face can look exactly as human's face and it starts act like ours. It's not perfect though , so we can expect that in near future that artificial intelligence will be on the highest level and we will have problem with recognise the human being and the robot. It's not only about the face and emotions but also about walking, avoiding obstacles and interact with the environment like a real person. The only one problem about creating the perfect "fake" person is to teach the robot humans thinking about death, life and time. These things manipulate, in some ways, our world view and form our personality, so how can we teach robots it? They won't die at all. Robots just can broke down, but I don't think that they will be perceiving it like we think about our death, right? I'm just interested in what will happen in a couple of years
ReplyDeleteLike Karolina I also do not believe that the human brain can be replaced by a computer. I do not mind that robot help us in daily activities but when I see robots that look like people I am a little disgusted. Generally, I would avoid situation in which I see someone and I ask myself: Is it a man or robot?
ReplyDeleteSince first industrial revolution (XVIII century) We can observe that most of worker who were doing simplest work has been replaced by machines. Why ? because machines not eat, not drink, not sleep, and almost always do the same simple task exacltly like it should be done. Nowadays we can observe big boom in IT, robotis, like author of the article have noticed robots now can imitate some of humans behavior and movements. Maybe not now but in future I think that we Will be able to program/create something similar to human brain. And maybe in future robots will replace us in most of our duties. Here you can see most of best robots created until 2014. One of them is similar to Einstein robot mentioned in article.
ReplyDeleteAs noted by Cezary machines replace us in menny areas. We often do not reflect on our work, responsibilities. Is it good? Is the mechanization of factories reduced employment in them?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion only changed form of employment of people. We need more accountant, engineer, programmer.... to use machines. How many people will needed support AI? What work will be allocated to people? In what areas of AI will replace us?
Robots will always be just objects. They can be used in medicine, industry, and simple household chores but will never be able to spontaneously develop themselves. Many years will pass before the robots are able to move and perform complex daily activities.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I fear the time when at work I don't meet friends but robots, even if they actually do behave and look like humans. There will always be something missing.
Honestly I'm truely affraid of artificial intelligence development. I think there will always be someone who will use it in a bad purposes. Also I think that the more human robots will reseble the real human the more the moral consiousness will be imbalanced, especially if it comes to deciding about life or death of a robot. For me this topic is as hard as talking about abortion. You will never have right and wrong. For some reflection I strongly recommend film by Kike Maíllo called "Eva" with Daniel Bruhl (the guy who played Niki Lauda in "Rush" and "Goodbye Lenin").
ReplyDeleteWell, as of now, we cannot say anything even closely related to artificial intelligence, as it doesn't exist. Yet. Unless we define intelligence as blindly following list of commands and making decisions based on previous experiences, then even my phone is intelligent. But remember one thing, we are aware of so little things (remember that the army has so much $$ to RnD) that we might not be aware that something like basic awareness exist. I guess we have to wait.
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